AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
DISEASES
Which were most frequent in the
British Military Hospitals
in Germany,
From January 1761 to the Return of the Troops
to England in March 1763.
To which is added,
An ESSAY on the Means of Preserving the Health
of Soldiers, and conducting Military Hospitals.
By DONALD MONRO, M.D.
Physician to his Majesty’s Army, and to
St. George’s Hospital.
LONDON:
Printed for A. Millar, D. Wilson, and T. Durham,
in the Strand; and T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate.
MDCCLXIV.
TO THE
KING.
May it please Your Majesty,
To permit me to lay at your Feet the following Sheets, published with a View to be useful to those, who hereafter may have the Care of the Health of your Majesty’s Troops.
Your Majesty’s particular Inquiries into the State of Your Military Hospitals, in every Quarter of the World, in the Time of the late glorious and successful War; Your Concern for every Officer and Soldier who suffered either by Sickness or by Wounds in the Cause of their King and Country; and Your Solicitude to procure them every possible Assistance and Relief, cannot fail to excite the highest Admiration of Your Majesty’s Goodness in the Breast of every Subject, and the warmest Gratitude in the Heart of every Soldier.
The Knowledge of these Circumstances induced me to flatter myself, that a Work of this Kind would be agreeable to Your Majesty; and should this Attempt towards pointing out the Means of alleviating those Miseries, which necessarily attend a Military Life in the Time of Service, be acceptable, I shall obtain the utmost of my Wishes; it being the greatest Ambition of my Heart ever so to act as to merit Your Majesty’s Approbation, and to subscribe myself,
May it please Your Majesty,
Your Majesty’s most dutiful Subject,
And most faithful
and humble Servant,
DONALD MONRO.